Ancestry of John Porter of Allegany Co., MD
Someone has decided that some of the speculation in my book, "The Porters of Colonial Maryland," is fact.I am concerned that this may have led to a whole lot of ancestry that may be in error.I note that at least two people have listed as the parents of John Porter, b. 1694 in Gloucestershire,Thomas Porter and Margaret Stroud of Bishop's Cleeve parish, Gloucestershire.One person has traced this Thomas Porter back to another John Porter in 1495.I would like to find out how these names became proven.As stated before, I had a Speculation section in my book, and it appears someone took that chapter as gospel and ran with it.
Ed Porter